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May 17, 1922

Soviet Union. Lenin wrote again to the People’s Commissar of Justice: “Comrade Kursky! I hope the fundamental concept is clear […]: openly state the principle that motivates the essence and justification of terror, its necessity, its limits. Justice must not eliminate terror […] only a revolutionary sense of right and revolutionary consciousness can suggest its practical application, more or less extensive. Communist greetings. Lenin.”